ETX 020 001 WQ 2025 Midterm #1 ChoChingles version

forensic science

_______ : The application of science to evidential items handled in a crime lab

criminalist

_______: One who analyses, characterizes and identifies physical evidence, forms an opinion and testifies to their opinion in a court of law

criminalistics

_______ : The application of science and it's interpretation as it applies to the evidentiary items from crime scenes.

criminalistics laboratory

_______: This refers to a laboratory that has the capability to perform all the tests normally associated with the field of Criminalistics or Forensic Science

victim, crime scene, suspect, evidence

4 key Forensic Associations/Links

real evidence

_______ - generated as part of a crime & recovered from crime scene

demonstrated evidence

_______ - created later to augment/explain real evidence

identity

_______ : examination of chemical and physical properties of an object

class

_______ : flexible definition; used to further sub-categorize within a group

individualization

_______ : an object classified into a group w/only one member

wipe stain

_______ - is created when an object moves through a pre-existing wet bloodstain

skeletonized stain

_______ - a bloodstain that consists of a darkened outer peripheral rim with the central portion of the stain having been removed by wiping through the partially dried stain

swipe stain

_______ - is the transfer of blood onto a target by a moving object that is bloodstained

voids

_______ - the absence of blood in an otherwise continuous bloodstain pattern that suggests the presence of an intermediate target that may have been removed

spatter pattern

_______ - a stain that results from blood hitting a substrate

forward spatter

_______ - results when blood droplets are projected forward from the item creating the impact, such as a hammer

back spatter

_______ - results when blood droplets are projected back from the item creating the impact, such as a hammer

cast-off pattern

_______ - results when blood is released from a blood-bearing object. Usually linear in configuration, but can also arch

arterial pattern

_______ - results from blood exiting the body under pressure from a breached artery

latent

_______ - Made by deposit of oils and/or perspiration and may be invisible

plastic

_______ - Impressed in a soft surface

visible

_______ - Made by deposit of a visible material (ink, blood) on a surface

oleander

_______ - ornamental shrub in the Apocynaceae (dogbane family), white to dark pin